2024 Music With Feeling, Supplementary Learning Resources
2024 Music With Feeling, Supplementary Learning Resources
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2025 Music of the World Learning Resources
2025 Music of the World Learning Resources Keep the fun and learning going with our downloadable Music of the World Resource Packet! Inside, you’ll find activities for kids aged 3-12, a playlist of the music you heard today, and more! Spanish MOTW Resource packet Música del Mundo Paquete de Recursos
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Diverse Colorado Resources
Tiny Tots: Diverse Colorado In this Resource Packet for Kids, we’ll explore the rich and diverse musical landscape of Colorado! Inside, you’ll find activities, Composer Spotlights, a link to a Diverse Colorado Playlist, and more!
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Ocean Adventure Resources
Tiny Tots: Ocean Adventure Dive into the depths of orchestra music with our downloadable Ocean Adventure Resource Packet for Kids! Inside, you’ll find songs from Tiny Tots, DIY percussion instrument guides, links to playlists, and more!
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We’ve Got the Blues
We’ve Got the Blues Use this activity to have students create their own blues story. Students can listen to “I’ve Got the Blues” by Sam Myers to get a sense of how lyrics and storytelling can happen over a basic blues line. Then, using this backing track video, have students create their own blues story.
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Protest Music
Protest Music Start the lesson by having students discuss or think about some or all the following questions: What issues are important to you? What injustices do you see happening in your world/life? What do you do when you don’t agree with something? What are some other things people do when they don’t agree with
Musical Graphs
Musical Graphs and Equations Make your own music graphs and charts. While preschool and early elementary children can stick with simple tally charts, older children can gather data and turn them into bar graphs or pie charts. Follow these simple steps: Choose what information you’d like to track. Some ideas: Is the music in a
Kahe Chede Mohe
Musical Storytelling and Kathak Dance During the Kahe Chede Mohe performance below, our orchestra is joined by Deepali Lindblom, a dancer performing the Kathak style of dance. Kathak is one of the seven Indian classical dances. It originated as a form of storytelling and through centuries became more refined and complex in technique and storytelling.
Music and Moods
Music and Moods Listen to the music in the playlist below. As students listen, have them draw a smiley face or write down an emotion that they think the music portrays. This works great if each student has a small white board to use. Have them hold up their white boards to share their words
What is program music?
What is Program Music? Program Music is music that is intended to describe a scene or tell a story. Program music is often inspired by a piece of art, a poem, or a story that a composer has heard but can also be inspired by people and places a composer encounters in real life. Listen
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Animal Tempos
Animal Tempos Vocabulary Let’s focus on just four main tempo dynamic markings: andante, moderato, allegro, and presto. Here is a helpful way to imagine four different tempos as animal speeds. Activity Step One: Try acting each animal move while you listen to these four pieces in this playlist: Feel how each animal has a different
Find the Beat
Find the Beat Complete the following activities as you listen to each piece of music on the tempo playlist. Find the beat – clap along with the steady pulse of the music Once the class has found and clapped the beat for a little while, have your students identify which of the following four tempo